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From Pandemic Penguins in a Plague House to a Parakeet in a Parking Lot

A long and winding story about friendship and fate, perhaps… By Aubrey Ann ParkerCurrent Contributor I grew up in and around Traverse City, where both sets of my grandparents lived—Cedar, Williamsburg/Acme, and then Lake Ann/Interlochen. My best friend from college, Quinn Davis, also grew up in Traverse City, but we didn’t become friends until we […]

Phenology

A farmer’s ode to the season change By Charla BurgessCurrent Contributor I have missed the afternoon ritual of hiking out to the maple bush to check the taps. Each step a dance between winter and spring; a deliberateness to this sun.  It is always the trees speaking to me of my next moves. When their […]

Pandemic Parenting

A first-time mother considers how COVID-19 has affected parenting in Northern Michigan

Filling A Need

Iron Fish Distillery makes hand sanitizer during COVID-19 pandemic

Helping Hands

The isolation that we have been asked to do—sharing physical space only when it is absolutely essential—means less face-to-face contact and more time on screens.